Method: Faker::Lorem.characters

Defined in:
lib/faker/default/lorem.rb

.characters(number: 255, min_alpha: 0, min_numeric: 0) ⇒ String

Produces a random string of alphanumeric characters

Examples:

Faker::Lorem.characters #=> "uw1ep04lhs0c4d931n1jmrspprf5w..."
Faker::Lorem.characters(number: 10) #=> "ang9cbhoa8"
Faker::Lorem.characters(number: 10, min_alpha: 4) #=> "ang9cbhoa8"
Faker::Lorem.characters(number: 10, min_alpha: 4, min_numeric: 1) #=> "ang9cbhoa8"

Parameters:

  • number (Integer) (defaults to: 255) —

    The number of characters to generate

  • min_alpha (Integer) (defaults to: 0) —

    The minimum number of alphabetic to add to the string

  • min_numeric (Integer) (defaults to: 0) —

    The minimum number of numbers to add to the string

Returns:



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# File 'lib/faker/default/lorem.rb', line 80

def characters(number: 255, min_alpha: 0, min_numeric: 0)
  Alphanumeric.alphanumeric(number: number, min_alpha: min_alpha, min_numeric: min_numeric)
end